Keyword

spatial ability

Description: Spatial ability is a cognitive capacity to perceive, reason about, and remember spatial relationships among objects and environments.

Primary topic: Spatial Cognition and Navigation (31%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q3125339

OpenAlex ID: keywords/spatial-ability

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

1984 · Robert Klitgaard, Howard Gardner · Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · 13,636

Emergence and Characterization of Sex Differences in Spatial Ability: A Meta-Analysis

1985 · Marcia C. Linn, Anne C. Petersen · Child Development · 2,982

Magnitude of sex differences in spatial abilities: A meta-analysis and consideration of critical variables.

1995 · Daniel Voyer, Susan Voyer, et al. · Psychological Bulletin · 2,862

Neurocognitive deficit in schizophrenia: A quantitative review of the evidence.

1998 · R. Walter Heinrichs, Konstantine K. Zakzanis · Neuropsychology · 2,795

The extreme male brain theory of autism

2002 · Simon Baron-Cohen · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2,006

The malleability of spatial skills: A meta-analysis of training studies.

2012 · David H. Uttal, Nathaniel G. Meadow, et al. · Psychological Bulletin · 1,906

Spatial ability for STEM domains: Aligning over 50 years of cumulative psychological knowledge solidifies its importance.

2009 · Jonathan Wai, David Lubinski, et al. · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1,850

Cerebral Lateralization

1985 · Norman Geschwind · Archives of Neurology · 1,772

Multimedia learning: Are we asking the right questions?

1997 · Richard E. Mayer · Educational Psychologist · 1,533

Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents

2015 · Kimberly G Noble, Suzanne M Houston, et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 1,419

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Human spatial abilities: Psychometric studies and environmental, genetic, hormonal, and neurological influences.

1979 · Mark G. McGee · Psychological Bulletin · 1,278

Music and spatial task performance

1993 · Frances H. Rauscher, Gordon L. Shaw, et al. · Nature · 1,235

For whom is a picture worth a thousand words? Extensions of a dual-coding theory of multimedia learning.

1994 · Richard E. Mayer, Valerie K. Sims · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1,188

How are visuospatial working memory, executive functioning, and spatial abilities related? A latent-variable analysis.

2001 · Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman, et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1,140

Meta-analyses of age-cognition relations in adulthood: Estimates of linear and nonlinear age effects and structural models.

1997 · Paul Verhaeghen, Timothy A. Salthouse · Psychological Bulletin · 1,078

A Redrawn Vandenberg and Kuse Mental Rotations Test - Different Versions and Factors That Affect Performance

1995 · M. Peters, B. Laeng, et al. · Brain and Cognition · 1,062

Women in Academic Science

2014 · Stephen J. Ceci, Donna K. Ginther, et al. · Gothic.net · 1,019

The separability of working memory resources for spatial thinking and language processing: An individual differences approach.

1996 · Priti Shah, Akira Miyake · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 915

Which cognitive abilities underlie computational thinking? Criterion validity of the Computational Thinking Test

2016 · Marcos Román-González, Juan-Carlos Pérez-González, et al. · Computers in Human Behavior · 864

A dissociation between mental rotation and perspective-taking spatial abilities

2004 · M Hegarty · Intelligence · 856

Affordances of Augmented Reality in Science Learning: Suggestions for Future Research

2012 · Kun-Hung Cheng, Chin-Chung Tsai · Journal of Science Education and Technology · 851

A theory of adult intellectual development: Process, personality, interests, and knowledge

1996 · Phillip L. Ackerman · Intelligence · 845

Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning

2005 · Mary Hegarty, Daniel R. Montello, et al. · Intelligence · 817

The Organization of Action: A New Synthesis

1981 · H. Philip Zeigler, C. R. Gallistel · The American Journal of Psychology · 804

Gender differences in way-finding strategies: Relationship to spatial ability and spatial anxiety

1994 · Carol A. Lawton · Sex Roles · 802

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